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About a month ago I was interviewed for an article about fleck in the TED. It is a free paper for all high school kids. The section I was in is called “Meld je Held” (who’s your hero?).
One quote: “The Web democratic? Well it sounds great and philosophic, but it is just not true”
Read the full article here (on page 26/27)
This is a 10 minute video on how web2 influences your normal life. It is pretty funny. Made by Clichee.tv.
Some Dutch initiatives are included as well (eKudos, Sellaband, Preople, and Fleck).
This post is in Dutch!
Voor The Next Web Conferentie hebben we een onderzoek laten doen (door Ruigrok Netpanel) naar de manier waarop web2.0 een rol speelt in het hedendaagse surfgedrag.
Dit waren de 10 dingen die mij opvielen:
1. Marktplaats heeft de grootste naamsbekendheid (meer dan hyves!)
2. Web2.0 nauwelijks bekend (maar wel bekender dan vorig jaar van 10% naar 13%)
3. Web2.0 nauwelijks/niet gebruikt voor zakelijke doeleinden
4. Web2.0 ten koste van tv (56%) maar vooral ook ten koste van shoppen (bij vrouwen dan -13%-)
5. 40% aangesloten bij online netwerk
6. 27% besteedt tussen de 3 en 6 uur aan online netwerken, 9% besteedt tussen 7 en 10 uur.
7. De helft vd Nederlanders die lid zijn van een online netwerk loggen meer dan 1 keer per dag in!
8. 60% van de Nederlanders leest geen blogs en besteed daar minder dan 1 uur per week aan (het is dus toch waar, de enige mensen die je blog lezen ben jezelf en je moeder :) )
9. Aantal rss lezers speelt geen rol in beoordeling betrouwbaarheid….! (wie zijn die mensen :) )
10. Fleck heeft evengrote naamsbekendheid in Nederland als Philips in Amerika (dat is helaas niet zo gaaf als het klinkt :) )
De uitkomsten van het onderzoek zijn hier te downloaden.
Het onderzoek heeft aardig wat nederlandse pers gehaald.
Marketingfacts:
4 op de 10 nederlanders zijn actief op online social networks
AdfoWeb:
Web2.0 populair onder Nederlanders
WebWereld:
‘Marktplaats, Wikipedia en Hyves belangrijkste consumentensites’
Emerce:
‘Nederlander kent web 2.0 niet’
Nu.nl:
Nederlander weet niet wat blogs zijn
Sprout:
Met Sprout naar Next Web
Scott Rafer is a great guy (we knew that already for quite a long time). He’s the moderator of this years The Next Web Conference (and hopefully he will become a The Next Web iCon!). Check out his skype profile :) That’s pure love :)
Thats right, well at least in some way….
The last weeks it is more like working from 9am to 5 am….
In Dutch we have the expression (directly translated to English): Organizing a huge conference and running fleck… that aint going to sit in your wet clothes :) (who invented this expression… I don’t know, but in English it just doesn’t make any sense :)
Last week in San Francisco we were invited at Kevin Kelly’s place and had a very interesting conversation with him. I made some video footage of it. (the quality is not that good, but it is worthwhile watching).
Kevin Kelly was Keynote speaker at The Next Web 2006. He is Editor at Large (formerly Editor in Chief) at Wired Magazine and famous for his books: “Out of Control” and “New Rules for the New Economy”. Foremost, he’s a great and inspiring person with an extraordinary vision on technology.
nu.nl and emerce came with a story about Myspace entering the Dutch market. My opinion is that this is just big bullshit and that IF Myspace is entering the Dutch market they will buy hyves (see my previous post).
So the big journalistic brands are just seeking news…. again.
Last night we did a video interview with Tim O’Reilly. He has a great vision on what will happen next. We made a small trailer of it for The Next Web Conference. Check it out.
Updated version…
Normally I do not like to whine about products or services, but in this case I do not have a choice. 2 years ago I bought the Palm Treo 650, it was new, you could check your mail with it and it had a camera! It was at no charge with a 2 year subscription, so I pretty nice deal I would say….
In the beginning it was an OK phone, I had little problems (accept with calling, synchronizing, emailing and all other stuff you do with a phone), but that is also something you have to take into account if you buy the newest products. It is a known thing for innovators to buy stuff that is very cool and on the edge, but doesn’t work that well yet (kind of a beta phase of the product).
Now after 2 years of miserable communication I would like to share my experience with you, so that you would never make the same mistake I did.
5.2 reasons why you should never buy a Palm Treo (and if it is up to me this accounts to all Palm products)
1. synchronization with Mac s#cks. If you buy a Palm, you buy it because you can synchronize your computer (contacts, email and calendar) with your phone. Palm said it was compatible with Mac which was true, if you use Palm Contacts and Palm Calendar (which are probably the worst designed software programs ever made) in stead of Addressbook and iCal (which every Mac user uses). So I had to buy a 40 dollar program to fix the synchronization. That worked for about half a year, then my Treo crashed (with capital C) and I never got it working again.
2. battery time! It lasts for 1 day, I mean… 16 hours. If you do not charge it overnight the battery will die! So my phone was more out of battery than that it did what it had to do.
3. too much software. On the Treo you can open word, excel, and powerpoint documents. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!!! That I would like to check my excel sheet on a 2.5 inch screen? Ok, you can say, hey if you don’t want to use it you don’t have to, but I believe it is because of the effort they put into making the Treo Word, excel, etc. compatible they forgot to put time in building a stable operating system. It crashes if you put it down on a table without using your soft touch. It crashed once saying: “Not enough memory to fulfill this task”, well you should think that erasing some stuff would help right? Wrong: “Not enough memory to fulfill this task”!!!!
4. alarm. I wonder what the development team was thinking when they had that 10 hour meeting about what to do with the alarm… On a Treo they have 2 sound options; On or Off. Normally when I go to sleep I turn off the sound, but IF you want to wake up in the morning it has to make noise, right? Not possible with a Palm. “if one wants the sound off then he probably doesn’t want to be disturbed, so no alarm bells either” that must have been their logic. Donkeys! (this in combination with the battery has costs me a lot off appointments).
5. screen lights up at every thing it does… I checked my email with the Treo and then I deleted an account and entered a new one, this was a little bit to difficult for the Palm to understand. It kept trying to check my deleted email account for 18 months every 6 minutes! This resulted in an annoying beep and (if you’d turn off the volume) the screen lighted up every time. Very annoying if your with other people, because they thing your phone is receiving something.
5.5 5.1 you have to pay for (miserable) support. Do you have a problem with your Palm…. You can call for support, the only thing is that you’ll have to pay around a euro per minute for…. yeah for what exactly.. well let’s put it this way, much further then “try a reset” they won’t go.
5.6 5.2 Doesn’t it say enough if you have a troubleshoot website with over 2000 entries!!! So you build a phone and over 2000 different things do not work properly or aren’t intuitive at all. The CEO must have thought “oohh, only a couple of thousand bugs, ship it! We need the revenues”
I guess I can go on for a couple of hours, but I decided not to waste any more time on this lousy product. I’m glad it fell into the Prinsengracht (one of the canals in Amsterdam).
Looking forward to my Blackberry Pearl!
Normally I always empty my spambox, but I wanted to know how much spam I receive so I decided to not delete my spambox for 1 month. The results:
5986 Spam mails (almost 200 a day)
5261 spam mails ended up directly in my spambox
717 spam mails came in my normal mailbox!
In comparison with my normal incoming mail of 1472 emails in the last month (50 a day) I receive 4 times as much spam as normal email. This means that 80% of my incoming mail is spam. Which is close to the 90% spam of all worldwide email traffic.
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